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The United Nations Global Compact is a United Nations initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation.

The UN Global Compact is a principle-based framework for businesses, stating ten principles in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption.

Under the Global Compact, companies are brought together with UN agencies, labour groups and civil society.

Cities can join the Global Compact through the Cities Programme.

In ecology, sustainability (from sustain and ability) is the property of biological systems to remain diverse and productive .

Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems.

In more general terms, sustainability is the endurance of systems and processes.

The organizing principle for sustainability is sustainable development, which includes the four interconnected domains: ecology, economics, politics and culture.

Sustainability science is the study of sustainable development and environmental science.

A chief executive officer (CEO) describes the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, leader or administrator in charge of managing an organization.

CEOs lead a range of organizations, including public and private corporations, non-profit organizations and even some government organizations (e.g., Crown corporations).

The CEO of a corporation or company typically reports to the board of directors and is charged with maximizing the value of the entity, which may include maximizing the share price, market share, revenues, or another element.

In the non-profit and government sector, CEOs typically aim at achieving outcomes related to the organization's mission, such as reducing poverty, increasing literacy, etc.

Titles also often given to the holder of CEO position include president, chief executive (CE), and managing director (MD), as well as representative director (RD) in Japan.

A partnership is an arrangement where parties, known as partners, agree to cooperate to advance their mutual interests.

The partners in a partnership may be individuals, businesses, interest-based organizations, schools, governments or combinations.

Organizations may partner together to increase the likelihood of each achieving their mission and to amplify their reach.

A partnership may result in issuing and holding equity or may be only governed by a contract.

Partnership agreements can be formed in the following areas:

In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions (axiology).

It may be described as treating actions themselves as abstract objects, putting value to them.

It deals with right conduct and good life, in the sense that a highly, or at least relatively highly, valuable action may be regarded as ethically "good" (adjective sense), and an action of low in value, or somewhat relatively low in value, may be regarded as "bad".

What makes an action valuable may in turn depend on the ethic values of the objects it increases, decreases or alters.

An object with "ethic value" may be termed an "ethic or philosophic good" (noun sense).